Newest teawares from Petr Novak include a pair of cha he, that I asked him to make with photography in mind--in simple, light matte finishes that will enhance but not distract from the appearance of tea leaves:

I think they came out splendidly for this use.

There was also a celadon shiboridashi, a bit larger than most of my teawares, for use in brewing larger volumes of tea at once for the tea thermos and sharing in the office (now that the sharing group is up to 5-7 people per round):

but this little gem is the star of the batch: a tree bark finish teapot that I can't stop admiring from every angle, a little piece with amazing presence that seems thousands of years old already.

It is also remarkable for how good the pot smells while brewing the tea--the best aspects of the teas come through with a sweet fruitiness that seems to penetrate the pot rather than come from the spout or at the edge of the lid--quite a delightful surprise.

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I've been admiring and sometimes using this yunomi at my favorite tea shop/bar for quite awhile. Recently I found out the artist can't make another like it, the kiln it was made in died, and his new kiln is just too different. I was fortunate enough to talk the bar into selling it to me (it had been in use for guests at the bar for years).

Seeker wrote:I've been admiring and sometimes using this yunomi at my favorite tea shop/bar for quite awhile. Recently I found out the artist can't make another like it, the kiln it was made in died, and his new kiln is just too different. I was fortunate enough to talk the bar into selling it to me (it had been in use for guests at the bar for years).

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Now I need to figure out how to get a kibako for it.

Great yunomi, great story! It's wonderful that the cup held your devotion for so long and finally came to be yours.

The pamphlet reads, more or less: "Tianmu Glaze: High temperature firing, showing shiny crystals, variation of texture and colors stimulate a night-sky-like atmosphere. The shape of the bowl is settled, delicate, and not heavy. The color of the glaze appears with depths and layers, like the eye of the sky/heaven. From past to present, a tianmu bowl offers a world of unpredictable depth, a vessel of simplicity and grace, a highly sought after beauty by royalty, political members, and poets and artists."

Thank you for translating, now I finaly know what it says and I'm so surprised! It was my first piece of teaware I got, gifted to me by a friend of my back then girlfriend's father in Taiwan. He told me that my dad should use it for coffee

I wished I could take some better pictures because my camera doesn't do it justice, it loses a lot of depth and complexity on picture.

Here is a Petr Novak tree bark Teapot I received around two weeks ago. My favorite teapot.around 70ml, the pour looks like a nice summer spring came with a teaboat and teacup, will take pictures later.

To share those photos from Flickr, with the new screwed up format there, look at the little mail icon below the image--lower right--when you have the image alone on its own page--the rectangle with an arrow coming from it. On the dropdown menu, click 'grab the HTML/BBcode', and grab the medium or small version link for BBcode. Paste the link directly into your post--don't click the 'img' button first.